LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Formby
IN 1894 the Committee of Management decided to take over control, upkeep and maintenance of ail the Life-boat stations in Liverpool Bay which had hitherto been under the management of the Mersey Dock Board, the latter corporation undertaking...
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Waterloo
The brigantine Waterloo, of Cork, bound from that place to Bristol, j was stranded on the Northam Sands at I 2 A.M. on the 6th November. A fresh ! gale from W.N.W. was blowing at the ! time. The Waterloo, having no means of i making...
Wellington
HOLYHEAD.—On the 28th March, at about 10 P.M., the Life-boat Thomas Fielden went off in reply to signals and found the schooner Wellington, of Carnarvon, in distress near the Breakwater. She had just been run into by another vessel, her...
Henry
TYBELLA, Co. DOWH. — On the 14th August the Memorial Life-boat, ia reply to a signal shown from the ship Henry, of St. John, N.B., during a S. wind and a heavy sea, was launched, and at the master's request brought ashore five fishermen...
Garibaldi
BBIDLINGTON. — On the 3rd February a signal of distress was observed from the lugger Garibaldi of Gravelines, which was riding in the roadstead about a mile and a half south of the harbour. The Lifeboat William John and Frances was launched...
Caledoina, of Preston
The Life-boat WakefiM ren- ! dered good service to the schooner Cale- l donia, of Preston, on the 27th April by ; remaining by that vessel till out of danger, i the Caledonia having gone ashore on the Horse Bank, and striking heavily till...
Cairnduna
In the forenoon of the 9th March, the schooner Cairnduna, of Thurso, bound from Dundee to Sunder- land, was driven ashore on the strand below Bamborough Castle, about five miles from the Life-boat Station at North Sim- derland. The Life-boat...
Euphemia, of Maryport
The Wexford and Carnsore Life-boats were also off to the barque Euphemiat, of Maryport, which became & total wreck oa the Tuskar rock, in a very heavy sea, on.
the 13th December. When the last-named boat reached the...
Life-Boat Saturday Fund
NUMEROUS demonstrations and collec- tions in connection with the Life-boat Saturday Fund have been arranged and admirably carried out during the past summer. The reports which have come in from all parts of the country indicate that,...
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Elizabeth
The fishing craft Elizabeth, of Tenby, at- tempted about 5 P.M. on the 17th March to cross the bar, but with the tide and heavy sea, there being little or no wind, she drifted on to the North Tail.
Within a few minutes the...